Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of American Foresters conference in Bellaire discussed how bark and wood-boring beetles can be expected as the next environmental and economic ...

The Emerald ash borer has been moving through Maine for several years, decimating ash trees in its path, and the invasive ...

Paul Tinklenberg and three co-workers made a trip to Jordan, Minnesota, for a University of Minnesota Extension-sponsored event where they saw firsthand what an emerald ash borer infestation looks ...

Some trees would replace those that were decimated by the emerald ash borer ... invasive beetle, called the emerald ash borer. Its larvae are notorious for burrowing under healthy bark to eat.

Taphrina deformans is the name of the disease that targets peaches and nectarines. The infection begins in autumn when the leaves are falling to the ground – a double dose of copper (a few times, 3 or ...

Very small holes in evergreen trees that are beginning to look thin and sick may indicate a type of bark borer. Slightly larger holes in deciduous trees may indicate a type of wood-boring beetle.

The emerald ash borer lifecycle begins with females laying up to 100 eggs in a single tree. Within one to three years, the beetle larvae have fed on the wood beneath the bark enough to kill the tree.